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Yueh-chi

Yueh-chi is the alternative form of Yuezhi.

Meaning of Yuezhi

Noun

Yuezhi pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) An ancient Indo-European people who originally settled in the arid grasslands of the eastern Tarim Basin area, in what is today Xinjiang and western Gansu, in China, before migrating to Transoxiana, Bactria and then northern South Asia, where one branch of the Yuezhi founded the Kushan Empire.
    Synonyms:
    Rouzhi

Questions about Yueh-chi

What is Yueh-chi the alternative form of?
Yueh-chi is the alternative form of Yuezhi.

Words near Yueh-chi in the dictionary

  1. yue qin
  2. yue qins
  3. Yuecheng
  4. Yuechi
  5. Yueh
  6. Yueh-chi
  7. Yueh-chih
  8. yuehchukene
  9. Yuehu
  10. Yuelu
  11. yuen

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Yueh-chi (page history and authors); Yuezhi (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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